All this does is lead local business owners to double-up on insurance and prepare for massive riots in the summer of 2015 as a not-guilty or hung-jury episode occurs. I’d pick up as much insurance as possible....prep for my business to be burned out....and cash in on leaving the area entirely (leaving behind my burnt storefront).
There’s great writing material here....go and take pictures now of Ferguson and wait till after the court episode ends....to show how the local economy fell.
We already tried this experiment -- anyone can see how cities that had riots in the 1960s did in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and up to today. This should do as much good for Ferguson Mo (population was 21,203) as it did for Detroit.
(At least this should stimulate the economy via shotgun sales. Unfortunately, O.F. Mossberg & Sons is still privately owned. Otherwise, I'd invest my entire IRA in the company.)
“as a not-guilty or hung-jury episode occurs. “
One of the speculations for the Zimmerman trial was the jurors would find him guilty not because he was but for fear of riots if they failed to find him guilty. Democrats have regularly promised riots in the streets if they didn’t get their way. (Al Gore made this claim several times. Obama told a group of businessmen that he was the only thing standing between them and the angry mob.) It has never happened on the promise of a politician, but it does regularly occur when verdicts come out. (The Rodney King riots were going to occur regardless of how it came out.)
But it is a very real concern that jurors will act this way. A judge needs to tell them in their instructions that riots are not their concern. Their concern is finding a verdict appropriate to the evidence. I feel so sorry for somebody who, because he is white, is a political voodoo doll that must be sacrificed to appease the angry gods of racism.